讲座题目：Extending the Talmyan Typology: A Macro-event as Event Integration and Grammaticalization

讲座人：李福印教授

讲座时间：2017年5月19日（周五）下午14:30

讲座地点：中国科学院大学玉泉路校区人文楼教一（2）

北京航空航天大学教授，博士生导师，德国Mainz大学认知语言学双博士项目导师，荷兰VU大学认知语言学双博士项目导师，香港中文大学博士，北京外国语大学兼职教授；任英文国际期刊Cognitive Semantics主编，“世界著名语言学家系列讲座”（外研社）主编，Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics（荷兰Brill）主编，Compendium of Cognitive Linguistics（美国纽约Nova）主编，Review of Cognitive Linguistics（Benjamins）等国际期刊编委；“中国认知语言学国际论坛”组织者，第11届国际认知语言学大会（ICLC-11）组织者；正式出版各类著作三四十部，发表论文70余篇；代表作《认知语言学概论》、《语义学概论》等著作，“Leonard Talmy的语言哲学思想”、“宏事件研究中的两大系统性误区”等期刊论文；主持国家社科基金、教育部人文社科基金等项目；任国际认知语言学研究会理事、美国认知科学学会会员、国际隐喻研究与应用研究会会员等。研究方向：Talmy的认知语义学、事件语法、隐喻理论、因果关系理论等。

This lecture is based on the article Extending the Talmyan Typology: A Macro-event as Event Integration and Grammaticalization. The article addresses the nature of macro-event, a fundamental concept for the Talmyan two-way typology. It proposes a diachronic aspect of macro-event, an aspect that seems to be under-appreciated or even neglected. It argues that a macro-event is resulted from integrating two simple events through grammaticalization. This hypothesis is supported by the behaviors of directional verbs in Mandarin Chinese in that these forms alone can express almost all five types of macro-events that Talmy has analyzed to establish his typology, and that these macro-events themselves represent an integration of two simpler events, and exhibit various degrees of grammaticalization. This study relates together two seemingly unrelated areas of research—the area of event structure and that of grammaticalization.